Thursday, December 18, 2014

Awkward Sleeper

Ok, I know. It's going to feel like Glitter is getting a lot of face time on the blog lately. But since she's going to endure a day at the 'spa' today, I figure she could use the attention.

By 'spa' I do not mean vet. I mean groomer. She's going for a much needed sanitary trim and claw clipping. But wait, don't I usually do the claws myself around here? Yes, yes I do. But sweet, gorgeous, gentle Glitter is a special case.

She's freaking strong!!!

Every time Greg tries to hold her for something, medicine, clipping, bathing, he gets clawed up. A lot. He's got battle scars from when she needed ear medicine for a week. He seriously could not hold her up for me to put the drops in. She's strong and can wriggle out of his grasp as no other cat has ever done! He wound up holding her on he floor between his knees, one hand on her back, one hand with the ear drops and hope like heck any got in before she shredded his legs by spinning like a weed eater on turbo!

The last time, ok, the ONLY time I clipped her claws I was only able to do the front ones. Mostly because she was using the back ones to eviscerate Greg while I clipped the fronts as fast as I could!

The next time she needed claws trimmed, she was already going to the vet for something else and he did it. He also gave her a sanitary trim. But, because as I said, she will not hold still, it was a horrible looking job, almost like a reverse Mohawk on one side and a wavy stuttering chop job on the other side.

I feel sorry for the groomers.. I really do. Last time they had Leo and Star with lots of mats and a sanitary trim on Leo. Leo's trim looked fantastic and they got all the mats and managed to make them look evenly trimmed at the same time. Unless you knew that Leo has huge pantaloons you wouldn't think he'd been trimmed at all! I had tried to do their mats, my cousin had tried to do their mats, it was impossible. So if anyone can work with Glitter, it's these people!

Still, I won't be surprised if it's a chop job and they ask us not to return.. But fingers crossed that it all works out!

So today's picture of Glitter! You have got to see this..

Do you see how her head is hanging down over the edge of the tree perch? There's what? a two inch rim on that thing.

And she is sound asleep.

If you think she might be cutting off her air supply and nearly strangling herself, you'd be right. When she does this and falls asleep heavily, you can hear her snoring and gagging! It's awful! It takes me hollering at her at least a couple of times before she wakes up too! Then she picks her head up, shakes it, curls back up with her head on the platform and goes back to sleep like it was nothing..

How can she do that??? Shouldn't it wake her up? Isn't it uncomfortable?

Silly kitty...

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Ok, on Tuesday I said I was going to post about what the Winnie's Wish FUNdraiser money was used for in Wednesday's post. Wednesday I fell asleep, posted late and went with a fast Wordless Wednesday post!
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Good luck on that grooming thing! Our Angel falls asleep with her head stuffed into the corner of a box. We think she'll suffocate herself, and she does end up snoring some, but that is apparently the way she likes it. Cats are weird!

the mom says that doesn't look comfy either.... hopefully she cooperates for her spa day (and mom says if it makes you feel any better, she has to wrap Ivy in a sheet and pin her down to clip her nails)

Annabelle is my smallest cat and I cannot trim her nails. So when it's time for any of the others to go to the Vet she gets to go as well just for a nail trim. She sits in frozen terror there and they get it done. IT isn't that she objects to it she refuses to be held by me. So I fully understand what you mean.

About Me

I love cats, always have. I don't understand people who don't like cats. What special little creatures God put on this earth to give us love and companionship and to fill our lives with laughter and soft furry hugs.
Aside from loving kitties, I love my family. My husband is the best! My nieces and nephew are the closest thing to my own children I have, and I helped half raise them. One of the twins lives with me at the moment, back again from a 6 month stay in Alaska, which she did for the sole purpose, and I'm not making this up, of killing me!
I thank God every day for my family and my kitties and for giving me the life He has.